The last and lonely days of Minnie Hunt
Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saggart Village The Last and Lonely Days of Minnie Hunt On the evening of Saturday 17th August 1907, Mary Hunt, a young domestic servant living in Saggart, made her way on foot to the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the centre of the village. Passing through the pointed-arched door she ascended the great tower of the Gothic revival Victorian Church. Mary Hunt had been ‘peculiar in manner’ in recent days. She had, for reasons known only to her, resolved that her twenty five years was long enough on this earth. A quiet and well conducted woman, Mary, affectionately known as Minnie, had originally come from Oghill, Monasterevin Co. Kildare where she had lived with her mother, before taking up employment as a parlour maid and domestic servant. She had for the previous 18 months been in the employment of Mr Hugh Hutton, then resident in The Lodge in Saggart ...